Now that I’ve finally completed the Sydney Medical Program, it’s about time that I finally post some long-overdue reflections on my elective terms in London and Hong Kong at the start of the year. The Royal London Hospital (Barts and The London, QMUL) My first elective term was spent at The Royal London Hospital under [...]
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SMP class of 2010
04Dec10After four long years of blood, sweat and tears, my Sydney Medical Program colleagues and I have finally finished medical school! Congratulations to everyone in the SMP graduating class of 2010! I was given the honour (and burden) of organising the official year photo for the Sydney Medical Program 2010 graduating cohort during Conference Week. [...]
This is London calling
30Dec09I’m currently in the United Kingdom doing a medical elective attachment in General & Emergency Medicine at The Royal London Hospital, organised through Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry; part of Queen Mary, University of London. The medical elective is a component of final-year in most medical programs worldwide and gives students [...]
Coonabarabran: rural medicine
02Nov09So after the previous few posts on Coonabarabran, you might be wondering whether I actually got around to doing any medicine during my placement there. Indeed I had plenty of medical practice in Coona and it was an amazing experience! (As with previous posts on Coona, the photos below and more can be found on [...]
Destination: Coonabarabran
08Oct09As promised earlier, this is the first in a multi-part series on Coonabarabran, where I had an amazing experience on rural placement for Community Rotation in the Sydney Medical Program. So without further ado, my first post about my time in that wonderful little town the locals call “Coona”… how on earth I managed to [...]
USydMP Stage 2 OSCE
30Nov08After the hurdle of the Stage 2 Barrier, our final assessment for the year was the objective structured clinical examination (OSCE). For second year University of Sydney Medical Program (USydMP) students this meant a barrage of twelve stations where a specific history, examination or procedural skill was examined. Day 1 stations Paediatric gastrointestinal history Diabetes [...]
